Furious interruptions. An approach to anti-speciest and post-humanist transfeminisms in Argentina

Abstract

This article proposes a brief cartography of antispeciesist and posthumanist transfeminisms in the Latin American context, focusing on some theoretical-practical interventions by activists from Argentina. It seeks to show that such perspectives emerged as plural, heterogeneous and localized practices aimed at promoting other ways of living and inhabiting the world. For this, in the first place, these claims are placed in the scenario of the irruption of different Latin American (trans)feminist struggles, emphasizing the importance that trans* transvestite struggles have had in the argentianian territory. Secondly, some productions aimed at thinking about the articulations between cisheteronormativity, speciesism and coloniality are resumed. Thirdly, within the framework of the unfolding campaign Ni Una Menos in Argentina, some anti-speciesists, transvestite (travestis), anti-ableist and indigenous activist’s interventions are analyzed, while tracing the ways in which the vindication of the animal emerges as a place of resistance in the heterogeneity of these claims. As a conclusion, it is proposed that the notion of animality can be thought of as a meeting point for political insurrection of different antispeciesist and posthumanist transfeminist voices.